“Before that press conference he took part in on the steps of the Supreme Court in July 2020, in which he billed himself as one of America’s frontline doctors, four sources who worked alongside him at UCLA tell us that they do not believe that Dr. Ladapo had actually treated Covid patients at all at UCLA when he stood up there and called himself a frontline doctor,” Maddow said…

She went on to note that the network had obtained scheduling documents from June 2019-September 2021 for the medical center.

“While these documents show that numerous doctors at that hospital were assigned to work in the Covid unit… at no point was Dr. Ladapo scheduled to treat Covid patients during that time period we were able to review,” she said…

“The fact that he is being used as a prop for Gov. DeSantis shows that he is consistently making poor judgement,” Ashby claimed. “He’s not even from Florida. He’s from California, he has no ties to Florida whatsoever. And Gov. DeSantis brought him in to be a prop.”